In a time of great need, it is interesting to compare the home pages of several companies to see how their ideologies about how business works affect their responses toContinue readingWhy Microsoft, Wal-mart, and Dell don't get it … and OSS folks do.

I recently needed to export slides from powerpoint as images to use in another application. I ran into two issues along the way that I thought I’d share in hopesContinue readingTips for Exporting slides from Powerpoint in C#

I am doing a lot of work with Flash MX and video (flv) and I recently needed to get the duration off of a bunch of FLV files. Sorensen nowContinue readingFlash FLV meta reader in .NET (C#)

This week I wanted to run a form simulation to populate a website with a lot of information by submitting a form over and over. I know there are bigger testingContinue readingAutoSubmitter – simulate multiple form submissions

I just finished up work on FreeTextBox 3.0.6 (download). Here the change log: Added: new project for ASP.NET 2.0 (FreeTextBox.sln renamed to FreeTextBox-2003.sln) Fixed: the default dll (3.0.5000.6; which isContinue readingFreeTextBox 3.0.6 release (IE7 support)

As mentioned in my previous post, I had some problems installing IE7 on my XP machine. I searched around for the error message and couldn’t find any solutions. But IContinue readingRun IE7 without installing it

A few weeks ago, Christopher Vaugn from the IE7 dev deam contacted me asking me to update FreeTextBox to support IE7’s new user agent string. After first, I was embarassedContinue readingIE7 and FreeTextBox (install error)

This week, I needed to get read the duration of a few hundred Windows Media Video files for a project. Since I started my development code in ASP and thenContinue readingRetreiving the duration of a WMV in C#

A few weeks ago I went a little crazy with the new Google Maps API. I also hooked it up to some pictures in Community Server to see what wouldContinue readingGoogle maps and Community Server :: Galleries

Our home-grown online education platform has been localized! We recently had a visit from the Chinese Bureau of Religious Affairs and they loved it. English Chinese (traditional) The current versionContinue readingLocalization of Online Education